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Romania To Host Largest NATO Military Base in Europe
March 21, 2024 | By Balkan Insight
Work has begun on expanding the Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania, transforming it into the largest NATO military base in Europe.
The military base at Mihail Kogqlniceanu, Constanta, southeast Romania, on the Black Sea coast, will become the largest NATO military base in Europe and will surpass the US military base in Ramstein, Germany, in size.
The new base will give Romania an increased role in NATO’s security architecture and a position of greater strength in the Black Sea, which is militarily dominated by Russia. It will be able to host 10,000 soldiers and civilians by 2030.
NATO and the US will relocate some logistics and human resources from Ramstein to the Mihail Kogalniceanu base.
Expansion works will cost 2.7 billion US dollars and work on access roads and a high-capacity electrical network has already started. Romanian authorities have expropriated 2,400 hectares from the localities of Mihail Kogalniceanu and Lumina, paying 5,500 euros per hectare.
“Social housing will be built for individual personnel or families. There will be block-type housing, individual housing, nurseries, kindergartens, schools, pharmacies, everything that is needed,” the commander of Mihail Kogalniceanu, Nicolae Cretu, said.
Covering an area of almost 3,000 hectares, the base will be the largest in Europe. Ramstein in Germany covers about 2,000 hectares.
The airport's current runway will be doubled and served by fuel depots and several hangars for various types of fighter jets and drones. NATO’s plans include the construction of one more runway for aircraft.
In addition to new military infrastructure, the Kogalniceanu base will include schools, kindergartens, shops and a hospital.
General Virgil Balaceanu, President of the Association of Reserve Officers and former representative of Romania at NATO Command in Brussels, told Radio Romania that Ukraine and the war there are not far from Romania.
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Considering there were reports many British and French soldiers (mercenaries?) killed in Odessa, contemplating Russian missiles hitting the Mihail Kogalniceanu base in Romania is always more than a very high probability:
Provocation after provocation to escalate:
Yes, but peace on who's terms? Ukraine is extensional for the pirate City of London:
News from the CIA-US military sponsored Radio Free Europe. With all the hard core censorship going on in Germany and in Britain they still call it "radio free Europe."
Keep us out of the absurd...Radio Free Europe...
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